Double panel card stencil



Au8- 6 1940- H. P. ELLIOTT 2.210.713

DOUBLE PANEL CARD STENCIL Filed Aug. 5, 1939 INVENTOR Harmon F. f//fo/I ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 6, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT .OFFICE DOUBLE PANEL CARD STENCIL Application August 3, 1939, Serial No. 288,128

8 Claims.

This invention comprises an improved form of 'card stencil having two printing fields, the sheet of material in which one of such printing iields has been cut being easily removable to permit the substitution of a new one in which another legend can be cut. Y

Stencils of this general type have heretofore been proposed for use by tax departments in printing and addressing tax bills or notices to tax payers, one eld or panel cooperating in the printing of the rarely changed data as to property boundaries and location etc., and the other cooperating in the printing of the name and address of the owner, which may change fairly often; but such prior devices have been bulky and .awkward for handling, and subject to other obtherein by which both are supported. Consequently, any such uncemented panel corner can be turned up and grasped as a tab to strip that panel from the frame preparatory to cementing a new blank panel in its place. The new name and/or address can then be cut in such substituted blank panel, and the stencil continued in use with changes so produced.

Two slightly diierent forms of such double panelled stencils embodying my invention are illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawing in which,

Fig. 1 is a face view of a card stencil having two panels formed of properly coated Iyoshino paper of substantially the same size, each extending lengthwise of a. single, rectangular frame, with one corner of the upper panel which is located in a corner of the frame turned up to serve as a tab which may be grasped by the user for stripping it from such frame. Y

Fig.` 2 is a longitudinal section on line 2--2 of Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale with parts broken away.

Fig. 3 is a face view of another stencil showing two panels of unequal size and having the dividing line between them running transversely of the frame, two of the corners of the smaller panel being turned up to form the desired tabs.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of that half of the stencil of Fig. 3 containing the smaller panel (Cl. lill-427) which is shown part way stripped from the frame, and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary face View of one end of a stencil like that shown in Fig. l, except that the-uncemented corner of the upper panel is 5 located at one end of the cemented seam between the two panels.

Throughout the drawing like reference'characters indicate like parts. v

Referring to Figs. l, 2\ and 5, the stencil frame indicated generally by Fis composed of two cardboard sections I and 2 and the intervening welt strip W cemented to both, said welt strip extending inwardly beyond the cardboard edges and forming a depressed innerborder portion B for the entire frame F to which the borders of the composite panel of properly coated sheets of yoshino paper P1 and P2 Aare fastened by the film of cementitious material 4 shown in Fig. 2. In applying said lm 4 to said depressed frame border 3, the triangular area of the latter under one corner of the upper panel P1 is left uncovered so that said panel corner portion is left free to be turned upwhen desired, asA shown at v5. The overlapping marginal portions of panels P1 and P2 are cemented together as shown at 6 in Fig. 1.

The above described uncemented corner portion of one panel may be located at one end of the overlapping seam 6 as shown at 'I in Fig. 5, but the preferred arrangement is that shown in Fig. 1, as less liability of leakage of ink through cemented seam 8 between the two panels sections there marked P3 and P4 runs transversely of the frame F, instead of longitudinally, as in the rst form which is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Also in Fig. 3 two corners of panel P3 are shown turned up to form stripping tabs 9, 9, the cement lm having been omitted under botlri such panel corners. In Fig. 4` a panel portion l0 is shown in process of being stripped from frame F.

'Ihe legends shown as having been cut in both forms of stencil are such as may be required in a. tax department, the panel section P1 cooperating with the ink applying portions of an addressing machine to print the name and addressy of the owner of a piece of property, while the other panel P2 cooperates to simultaneously print the description of said property. lThe latter rarely has to be changed except when the land is subdivided for sales purposes. Consequently` panel Pa is permanently attached to .the frame F.

Oln the other hand the name and/or address of the taxpayer may frequently change, and accordingly they are cut in the removable panel P1.

As the record of descriptive data, is apt to be more lengthy than thev name and address the former is cut in the larger panel P4, shown in Fig. 3, while the latter is cut in the smaller removable panels Pa there shown.

Obviously more than two corners of the removable panel might be left uncemented,r and also the oneor two loose panel corners might be located in positions different from those shown. No showing of the cement illm is made in the drawings except in theexaggerated longitudinal section, Fig. 2, and in the perspective view Fig. 4.

In practice the panel having the uncemented `corner. or corners, is' easily stripped out 'of the frame when the name and/or address, or other legend cut therein, have become obsolete, a, fresh panel of coated yoshino is cemented in position in its place, the new name and/or address is cut in such `substituted panel, and the stencil so brought up to date is put back in the les for continued use.

Having described my invention, I claim: 1. As a new article of manufacture a blank for makinga type cut card stencil comprising a rectangular double layer frame of cardboard between the layers of which a welt sheet is secured, the said sheet being paneled to provide a depressed border within the panel opening of the frame to which the edge portions of two panels of thin, stencilizable fabric are cemented side by side at all points except at least one corner of one of said panels; whereby said uncemented corner portion of one panel may be bent out from the face of the card far enough to serve as a tab whichmay be grasped by the users ngers for stripping that panel from the frame preparatory to substituting a fresh one therefor.

2. An article of manufacture such as defined in claim 1, in which the uncemented corner of said fabric is located in a corner of said frame.

3. An article such as deiined in claim 1 in which the adjacent edges of said panels are mutually overlapping and have such overlapping border portions cemented together.

4. An article such as dened in claim 1 in which the panel having an uncemented corner portion is considerably smaller than the other one.

5. Anarticle such as defined in claim 1 in which the panel having an uncementedv corner portion is considerably smaller than the other one, and their overlapping portions extend transversely of the card.

6. As a new article of manufacture a blank for making a type cut card stencil'comprising a rectangular double layer frame of cardboard between the layers of which a welt sheet is secured, the said sheet being paneled to provide a depressed border Within the panel opening of the frame to which the edge portions of two panels cf thin, stencilizable fabric are cemented side by side at all points except at least two corners of one of said panels; whereby said uncemented corner portions of one panel may be bent out from the face of the card far enough to serve as tabs which may be grasped by the users fingers for stripping that panel from the frame preparatory to substituting a fresh one therefor.

7. An article of manufacture such as defined in claim 6 in which the uncemented corners of said fabric'are located in corners of said frame.

8. An article su ch as defined in claim 6 in which the adjacent edges of said panels are mutually overlapping and have such overlapping border portions cemented together. 

